U.S. presidential election (12): Trump attacked at second Republican debate
Donald Trump’s exchange with Jeb Bush:
JB: “To subject my wife into the middle of a raucous political conversation was completely inappropriate and I hope you apologise for that Donald.”
DT: “Well, I have to tell you I hear phenomenal things, I hear your wife is a lovely woman. I don’t know her.”
JB: “She is, she’s fantastic. She is absolutely the love of my life, and she’s right here, and why don’t you apologise to her right now?”
DT: “No, I won’t do that because I said nothing wrong, but I do hear she’s a lovely woman.”Donald Trump’s exchange with Carly Fiorina:
Moderator Jake Tapper gives Ms Fiorina the chance to respond to Mr Trump’s comments about her in Rolling Stone magazine in which he said: “Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that. Can you imagine that as the face of our next president?” Mr Trump later said he was talking about her persona, not her appearance.
CF: “You know it’s interesting to me. I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr Trump said.”
(Loud applause)
DT: “I think she’s got a beautiful face and I think she’s a beautiful woman.”
These are two of the exchanges in the this week’s second debate between the major contenders for the Republican candidacy for next year’s US presidential election. You can read more about the debate here.
To most non-Americans, the idea that Donald Trump could win the Republican’s presidential nomination is incredible and the notion that he could succeed someone as sensible and progressive as Barack Obama in the White House is scary. But then, at the beginning of the summer, very few thought that Jeremy Corbyn could become leader of the British Labour Party or that Bernie Sanders could be challenging Hillary Clinton in polling in the earliest primary states. These are strange political times.